The London Merchant: Or, the History of George Barnwell. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. By Mr. LilloS. Crowder, T. Lownds, T. Caslon, H. Woodgate, and G. Kearsley, 1763 - 70 Seiten |
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abfent accufe Afide anſwer Arts Barn beſt Bleffings Blunt Bofom Caufe Cauſe Circumſtances Confcience Confufion cou'd Crimes curfed Death Defign Defire Defpair difcovered dreadful Enter Thorowgood Enter Trueman Exeunt Exit fafe fame Fate fecure feems felves ferve fhall fhould fince firft fome foon Friend ftand ftill ftrange fuch fuffer fure Genoa greateſt Grief Guilt Happineſs Heart Heaven herſelf himſelf honeft Honour hope Houfe Houſe impoffible increaſe Innocence Intereft JOHN EYLES juft Juftice laft laſt lefs loft Love Lucy Madam Maid Maria Maſter Mercy Mifery Mill Millwood moft moſt muft Murder muſt myſelf never Number obferv'd Paffion Pain Pardon Pity Pleaſure poffible prevent Reaſon Room in Thorowgood's Ruin SCENE Senfe ſhall Shame ſhe Soul Tears thee thefe there's thofe Thor thou thought thouſand Truft twill Uncle Virtue whofe wiſh worfe wou'd Wretch yourſelf Youth
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Seite 52 - MILL. Heaven defend me! Conceal a murderer? Here, Sir; take this youth into your custody. I accuse him of murder, and will appear to make good my charge.
Seite 30 - I never shall trouble you more. I'm come to take my leave for ever. Such is the malice of my fate: I go hopeless, despairing ever to return. This hour is all I have left...
Seite 7 - Plays founded on moral tales in private life may be of admirable use by carrying conviction to the mind with such irresistible force as to engage all the faculties and powers of the soul in the cause of virtue by stifling vice in its first principles.
Seite 25 - ... beloved. But why thus cold and silent ? When my heart is full of joy for your return, why do you turn away ? why thus avoid me ? What have I done ? how am I altered since you saw me last ? Or rather, what have you done ? and why are you thus changed ? for I am still the same ? Barn.
Seite 34 - ... the unhospitable world, in misery and want, attended with fear and danger, and pursued by malice and revenge— wouldst thou endure all this for me, and can I do nothing, nothing to prevent it? LUCY. 'Tis really a pity there can be no way found out.
Seite 50 - Think you I added sacrilege to murder? Oh! had you seen him as his life flowed from him in a crimson flood >. and heard him praying for me by the double...
Seite 15 - On these terms to defend us is to make our protection a benefit worthy her who confers it, and well worth our acceptance.
Seite 6 - What I would infer is this, I think, evident truth; that tragedy is so far from losing its dignity, by being accommodated to the circumstances of the generality of mankind, that it is more truly august in proportion to the extent of its influence, and the numbers that are properly affected by it. As it is more truly great to be the instrument of good to many, who stand...
Seite 62 - I so soothe my just remorse. Are those honest arms and faithful bosom fit to embrace and to support a murderer ? These iron fetters only shall clasp, and flinty pavement bear me.
Seite 63 - Barnwell, there is yet another task behind ; again your heart must bleed for others' woes. BARN. To meet and part with you, I thought was all I had to do on earth ! What is there more for me to do or suffer ? TRUE.